Amsterdam police commissioner Ad Smit will be fired with immediate effect due to years of embezzlement. The top of the Amsterdam police will hand him his dismissal next week, NRC reports.

Smit was the highest police officer of the police unit in Amsterdam district Oost for around 20 years.

According to the newspaper, he regularly used police money to entertain family members, colleagues and friends. Investigation showed that he paid for, among other things, expensive meals and tickets to football matches with police funds.

Amsterdam police commissioner Ad Smit, 64, was suspended. He is being investigated for "embezzlement in service" - for years he privately used tickets to the Amsterdam Arena and Ziggo Dome, where he was police chief, according to Het Parool.